Fetch MCP

Simple MCP server that fetches web content from URLs and provides it to AI

An MCP server that retrieves content from URLs via HTTP/HTTPS. It enables AI to access web page HTML, JSON API responses, text files, and other web-based content.

Author: Anthropic

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Install: npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch

Key Features

• Retrieve content from URLs via HTTP/HTTPS
• Access web page HTML content directly
• Fetch and handle JSON API responses
• Automatically convert HTML to Markdown
• No authentication required for easy setup

Use Cases

• Web scraping — Fetch website content for AI to extract and analyze information.
• API integration — Retrieve data from public APIs and have AI process the results.
• Real-time data fetching — Dynamically fetch latest information from news or data websites.
• Document processing — Access and process publicly available text and markdown files.